---
title: New 'Opportunity Atlas'
description: "News:MPR: New tool shows the American Dream is harder to find in some neighborhoods"
---

[HELIX FEED ](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix)

# [New 'Opportunity Atlas'](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/new-opportunity-atlas)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 10/01/18

Does the neighborhood you grow up in determine how far you move up the economic ladder?

A new online data tool being made public Monday finds a strong correlation between where people are raised and their chances of achieving the American dream.

Harvard University economist Raj Chetty has been working with a team of researchers on this tool — the first of its kind because it marries U.S. Census Bureau data with data from the Internal Revenue Service. And the findings are changing how researchers think about economic mobility.

 

[Read the full story here.](https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/10/01/npr-the-american-dream-is-harder-to-find-in-some-neighborhoods)

[View full post](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/new-opportunity-atlas)

```json
{
  "@context" : "http://schema.org",
  "@type" : "BlogPosting",
  "author" : {
    "@type" : "Person",
    "name" : "DSST Public Schools"
  },
  "dateModified" : "2018-10-01T20:22:13.431Z",
  "datePublished" : "2018-10-01T19:54:11Z",
  "headline" : "New 'Opportunity Atlas'",
  "image" : {
    "@type" : "ImageObject",
    "height" : 441,
    "url" : "https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3379430/5df3bd-20181001-opportunity-atlas.png",
    "width" : 800
  },
  "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/new-opportunity-atlas",
  "publisher" : {
    "@type" : "Organization",
    "logo" : {
      "@type" : "ImageObject",
      "height" : 60,
      "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png",
      "width" : 60
    },
    "name" : "HELIX FEED"
  }
}
```